Will Intel and Nvidia Toast the Happy Couple?
In a move valued at $5.4 billion, AMD has acquired graphics heavyweight ATI Technologies. Although the purchase had been rumored for some time, AMD’s gutsy move still shook up the industry: Sure, buyouts and mergers happen all the time, but these are two of the biggest names in PC hardware, companies that have often been performance leaders in their respective categories. By joining forces, AMD obviously feels this new powerhouse offers a more formidable challenge to archrival Intel. The main impetus behind this move has been the much-anticipated convergence of CPUs and graphics chips into consolidated multimedia processors. External capabilities have been moving onto the processor die for some time — Level 2 caches, math coprocessors, memory controllers — and it appears that graphics are the next target. With CPU and GPU in one chip, new possibilities open for everything from low-power slimline computers to cutting-edge performance machines. There are two ways for AMD and Intel to a
Related Questions
- I want to spend a couple of hours (at least) at the Intel Museum, but my spouse and the kids think they want to tour the Winchester Mystery House. Can we do both — simultaneously?
- Will the RegCOPA registry editor run on the new Windows Vista Operating System?
- Will Intel and Nvidia Toast the Happy Couple?
